Simon Nicholls is currently Executive Producer for the Comedy department at BBC Studios. For five years Simon was a producer in Armando Iannucci’s team at the BBC, working across a slate of comedies including The Thick Of It, Time Trumpet, Genius with Dave Gorman and Chris Addison’s sitcom Lab Rats.
At NBC Universal Simon helped develop Christopher Guest’s HBO comedy Family Tree and recent BBC Two comedy Quacks. Simon has just finished producing comedian Bridget Christie’s new stand-up series for Radio 4 and is developing new TV comedies with writer Arthur Mathews (Father Ted) and Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered).